Pangasinan, 2 cities, 21 towns win 2019 SGLG awards
LINGAYEN–The Pangasinan provincial government, along with two cities and 21 municipalities, earned the 2019 Seal of Good Local Governance Awards.
This was reported by Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año in a post on the DILG website.
As 2019 SGLG awardee, Pangasinan is set to receive P7 million Performance Challenge Fund (PCF), a cash incentive to help finance high capital investment projects.
The SGLG awardees in the city category are Alaminos and San Carlos.
The SGLG municipal awardees are Aguilar, Alcala, Anda, Asingan, Balungao, Basista, Bayambang, Bugallon, Calasiao, Infanta, Lingayen, Malasiqui, Mangaldan, Mangatarem, Natividad, Rosales, San Manuel, Sta. Maria, Tayug and Urbiztondo.
DILG Pangasinan officer in charge Randy dela Rosa said the LGUs were judged based on their financial management, disaster preparedness, social protection, peace and order, solid waste management, business friendliness and competitiveness, environmental management, tourism, culture and arts.
Dela Rosa said those who failed to bag the SGLG or earned low ratings was due to their poor utilization of their disaster funds, while others did not improve in terms of gross collection (tax or market and other collections).
“Others have a problem in sanitary landfill. They do not have access to sanitary landfill nor did they have a memorandum of agreement with those who have sanitary landfill based on data from national government agencies like the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and that they still operate the open dumpsite (which is contrary to the solid waste management law),” he said.
It will be the fifth SGLG award for Pangasinan, the first was in 2015 during the term of former Governor Amado Espino Jr. and in 2016, 2017 and 2018 during the administration of Governor Amado Espino III.
The only other provincial SGLG awardee in Region 1 is Ilocos Sur.
The other Region 1 cities included in the list of SGLG awardees are Batac, Candon, San Fernando, and Vigan cities. (Leonardo Micua/Helen Martin)
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